Project management - Organize issues using labels

Labels are a good way to categorize the tasks. But having too many in an unorganized way results more clutter.
Here is my way of labeling issues/tasks. This is the way I organize my tasks in GitHub, GitLab and in Jira.

Area

Indicating the area to which issues belong.

Label

Description

Color

area:optimization

Fine tuning works

#8bd9e5

area:documentation

area:security

area:ux

User experience

#ccbef7

Priority

Used to prioritize the issues.

Label

Description

Color

priority:high

Requires immediate attention

#d93f0b

priority:medium

Requires attention soon

priority:low

Does not require immediate attention

Stage

Indicating the current stage of the issue.

Label

Description

Color

stage:investigating

Someone is looking into this

stage:wontfix

Does not regard this as an issue or will not implement this feature

stage:backlog

Prioritized to be picked up in current sprint

stage:proposal

No work has been done of this issue

stage:awaiting response

Potential fix was proposed; awaiting response

stage:pending release

Works associated with this issue is done but not deployed

stage:ready for work

The issue is reproducible and in scope

stage:needs information

Not enough info to reproduce the issue

stage:needs review

Work done but needs review

stage:needs investigating

Someone needs to look at this

stage:work in progress

Someone is working on it

#68db1c

stage:test

Deployed to TEST environment

Stage labels like in progress, backlog etc can be skipped in GitHub if you linked the issue to a project which has relevant columns matching these stages.

Type

Used to categorize the issues.

Label

Description

Color

type:breaking change

Requires a new major release version

type:bug

#ee0701

type:chore

Work is required w/ no deliverable to end user

type:comment

Comments created via utteranc.es

#893aff

type:duplicate

This issue already exists

type:feature

New feature that does not currently exist

#62fcbe

type:enhancement

Requested enhancement of existing feature

#6550ba

type:question

type:user experience

Improvements needed for UX

If you are a colorful person 😉 , suggest me some colors for these labels in the comments 👇

Written by Abhith RajanFollow @AbhithRajan
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